Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-16
THE ERNST TRAGEDY.
The Police Think They Will Arrive Here TO.day-COra Hell Detained at the Jail as a Witness

The Police Think They Will Arrive Here To.day-COra Hell Detained at the Jail as a Witness.
 Detectives Reilly and Brewer went to New York Saturday to escort the two murderers of Margaret Ernst to New Haven. Cham berlain and Taylor both expressed desire to come without causing the New Haven officers | any trouble, but owing to 8 hitch in the
 legal machinery the New Haven officers were | obliged to come home empty-handed. This, l however, did not worry them, as long expe-
 rience has rendered them impervious to ! temporary setback. Chief Bollmann had | bsen in Albany, but returned to New York I too late to present Governor Hills consent l to have the men removed to the proper
 court. Consequently the three officers came | to New Haven alone. About 800 people | stood on the depot platform when the three | officers alighted from the 10:50 train. Every body felt weary when it was learned the | murderers were still in New York. A sen-
 sational report prevailed on Chapel street late Saturday night that the two prisoners | had committed suicide. This morning De- l tective Reilly and Chief Bollman will go to l New York and as soon as the necessary forms | of law are gone through with will start for | New Haven with the two prisoners. Cora | Bell, the New York woman who is supposed l to know all about the murder had confer ! ence Saturday with State Attorney Doolittle. l At present she is boarding at the jail, where she will probably remain for 8 time at least. The mother of young Chamberlain came ! from Hunters Point, N. Y., and was mar ! ried when she was sixteen years of age. Her husband died shortly after the birth of her l child and she afterwards married Charles Bush and at present is living on Collis street, this city.
 AL yesterdays Sun says:
 To draw the chain of evidence as closely as possible around Chamberlain and Taylor, the selfconfessed murderers of Mrs. Ernst at New Haven, Inspector Byrne telegraphed the | chief-of- police at New Haven yesterday morn- | ing to send to this city the handkerchiets and | the chisel found in the room where the mur- der was committed. At 5 o'clock yesterday l afternoon Detective Brewer, of New Haven, \ arrived at headquarters bearing the desired articles.
 The handkerchiefs were first shown to | Taylor, who identified one of them marked ''E. T." as belonging to his sister, | Eliza Taylor. He did not identify the others. Chamberlain examined one ! with a red-spotted border and
 said that it was his. He coolly sme1t of it to see if there was any lingering | odor of chloroform. It was the handkerchief ! taken from the dead woman's mouth. He said the others might be his, but he was not sure. The chisel- neither could or would identify. W. H. $. Fitting, however, who keeps hardware store at 43S Hudson street, diagonally across from Martins Hotel, where the murderers met, states that he has in his store lot of chisels like the one in question and sells no other. His boy, Everett Van Gas Beck. says that he remembers fitting the handle to the chisel. Fitting does not remem Der having sold such chisel to any stranger recently, but will visit the prisoners to-mor- row, as will the boy also, to see if he can
 place them. The extradition papers for the
 murderers have arrived, but cannot be acted
 on until tomorrow.